totem-gstreamer-video-thumbnailer crashed with SIGSEGV in ff_vdpau_add_data_chunk()

[Marius Nestor]

Binary package hint: totem

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) with all updates released as of February 28, 2009.

Every time when I right click on a WMV, MKV or MPG file and select Properties, Nautilus restarts and a GStreamer error appears!

The Properties window never appears, so I can not set any options to the above mentioned files.

Moreover, there are no thumbnails for the above mentioned files.

Totem doesn't play the above mentioned files, it freezes on WMV files and it closes in 2-3 seconds after opening MKV or MPEG-2 files!

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: /usr/bin/lsb_release:81: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated import sets Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer-video-thumbnailer
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.25.91-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-video-thumbnailer -s 128 file:///storage/Video1/01hd.wmv /tmp/.gnome_desktop_thumbnail.1DS5PU
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: totem
StacktraceTop:
 ff_vdpau_add_data_chunk ()
 ff_vdpau_vc1_decode_picture ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.52
 avcodec_decode_video ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so
Title: totem-gstreamer-video-thumbnailer crashed with SIGSEGV in ff_vdpau_add_data_chunk()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Luis Díaz (piponazo)]

I have the same problem with the same architecture, but that problem don't occur every time only occasionally.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not a totem bug but a ffmpeg one

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:iv_Decode_Chunk (s=0x0,
?? ()

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for your report!

However, processing it in order to get sufficient information for the
developers failed (it does not generate an useful symbolic stack trace). This
might be caused by some outdated packages which were installed on your system
at the time of the report:

liblaunchpad-integration1: installed version 0.1.22, latest version: 0.1.23
libtheora0: installed version 1.0~beta3-1, latest version: 1.0-2

Please upgrade your system to the latest package versions. If you still
encounter the crash, please file a new report.

Thank you for your understanding, and sorry for the inconvenience!

[Blake Munro (blake-munro)]

This bug is still present in Jaunty Alpha 5 x8_64, fully patched as of todays date. This bug has been changed to Confirmed and needs further investigation.

[Marius Nestor (marius-nestor)]

Great... I'll let you know if it's still there in Alpha 6. In the mean time... I was obligated (as you can see from the post above yours) to fill in the bug again... here -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/337391

If you want... you can erase that entry... or whatever you think is best!

[Marius Nestor (marius-nestor)]

Ohh... and it is also related to this one -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/337396 (see the video in my post).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You have reported a crash that actually happened in the libavcodec or libavformat library. In order to be able to actually fix this bug, we must be able to:

1. Reproduce it;
2. Check if it happens with the latest version; and
3. Understand where it actually crashes.

You can help with the first point by attaching an example file to this bug report. Please note that a proper attachment is preferred over a link to some remote site. Remote sites that are password protected or otherwise restricted (services like rapidshare.com) are absolutely not acceptable. If you're file is too large, try to reproduce with the first few MB only. See http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html section "Submitting Sample Media" for guidelines.

[Marius Nestor (marius-nestor)]

I've attached a WMV file. Once you will place the file on your desktop for example, you will see a Gstreamer error. Please right click on the file and go to Properties.... Nautilus will immediately restart itself... or it will freeze for a few seconds, then restart.

[Blake Munro (blake-munro)]

Hi

Thanks for all your assistance Marius but please do not reply to me directly
off-list. Just send your replies to the list so that everyone gets them (and
so that my gmail filters do their job!)

Thanks
Blake

2009/3/11 Marius Nestor <email address hidden>

> I've attached a WMV file. Once you will place the file on your desktop
> for example, you will see a Gstreamer error. Please right click on the
> file and go to Properties.... Nautilus will immediately restart
> itself... or it will freeze for a few seconds, then restart.
>
> ** Attachment added: "heineken_commercial.wmv"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23748365/heineken_commercial.wmv
>
> --
> totem-gstreamer-video-thumbnailer crashed with SIGSEGV in
> ff_vdpau_add_data_chunk()
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335805
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.6.2 update in jaunty fixes your issue?

[Marius Nestor (marius-nestor)]

@Sebastien, I will try and I'll let you know!

@Blake, I did not replied to you :) Sorry for any inconvenience I've caused, but all I did was to post here.... :-/

PS: It looks like you've subscribed to this bug, that's way you receive the posts :)

[Marius Nestor (marius-nestor)]

Sebastien... I've just updated my system and the bug was not fixed... it gives me a "nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV"...

Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help you fix this bug :)

Remeber that thumbnails for this files are also not created!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you run dpkg -l | grep gst and add that to the bug? the video thumbnail and plays correct there

[Marius Nestor (marius-nestor)]

marius@softpedia-desktop:~/Desktop$ dpkg -l | grep gst
ii bluez-gstreamer 4.30-0ubuntu1 Bluetooth gstreamer support
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.22-3 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.6.2-1 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.22-3 GStreamer plugin for GnomeVFS
ii gstreamer0.10-pitfdll 0.9.1.1+cvs20080215-1ubuntu1 GStreamer plugin for using MS Windows binary
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.10-1ubuntu1 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.22-3 GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps 0.10.22-3 GStreamer helper programs from the "base" se
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.14-1 GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.10-2 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse 0.10.7-2 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set (Multi
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.14-1 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii gstreamer0.10-schroedinger 1.0.5-1 GStreamer plugin for encoding/decoding of Di
ii gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.22-1 Tools for use with GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.22-3 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.22-3 GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.22-1 Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii phonon-backend-gstreamer 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu1 Phonon GStreamer 0.10.x backend
ii python-gst0.10 0.10.14-1ubuntu1 generic media-playing framework (Python bind
ii totem-gstreamer 2.25.92-0ubuntu1 A simple media player for the GNOME desktop

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you get the issue when playing the file in totem too? does ffplay plays it correctly?

[Marius Nestor (marius-nestor)]

Yes, it's all related... Totem, GStreamer, Nautilus, ffmpeg:

- The files do not play at all in Totem.... When you open them, Totem freezes.
- Nautilus fails because GStreamer/ffmpeg can't render the thumbnails (please see the video I've recorded last night here -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/337396).

The files that won't play (that I've discovered until now) are: WMV, MKV, MP4, MPEG-2/AVC.

AVI and MPG are OK!

ffplay plays the files correctly.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you run totem on the command line and copy the error displayed before the crash to the bug?